A thousand people were spread out over a three-kilometer area, so their defense was very low. Fortunately, Salin had treated this place as a militarized city when he first built it. There were towers made of pure white stone on both sides of the port. There were magic arrays to maintain a constant temperature inside the towers, and alchemy crossbows with a range of more than eight hundred meters were installed in each tower.
These white towers only had two floors. Troops could be stationed below, but there were no tunnels, so they could only defend to the death. In fact, these buildings were not used to stop enemies. These towers could defend against magic cannons, and the soldiers could hide inside without worrying about attacks from warships on the sea.
Now that the sea was frozen for more than a hundred kilometers, warships could not approach at all. The towers could only be used to block the ice with the alchemy crossbows.
There were dozens of towers, and each tower had an Alchemy Crossbow. The constant temperature magic array could keep crossbow weapons in good condition. This place was almost sealed off, and without the corrosion of the sea's moist air, the Alchemy Crossbow was always in a combat-ready state.
Daniel was currently hiding on a tower. Beside him was a medium-sized alchemy crossbow, which was also the heaviest weapon Salin could get his hands on. Large alchemy crossbows had a shooting range of several kilometers, and Salin couldn't buy one for the time being.
Through the alchemy telescope, Daniel saw the ice on the sea flickering with blinding light, and there were dense black dots approaching. Even without using magic to calculate, he could roughly estimate that there were at least six hundred people in this group.
If there were no sword saints or great magicians among these six hundred people, Daniel was confident that he could take them all down. However, the enemy had twelve ships, and a fleet of this scale would definitely have great magicians and many sword saints.
There were too many magical beasts on the sea. Without a certain amount of power, even the sturdiest ship would sink.
Daniel began to miss Salin now. If Salin was here, he would not have to bear any pressure, and only need to follow orders. Daniel was not someone who pursued power. He only wanted to practice magic and become a free and powerful magician.
Now, Daniel could only analyze carefully and not make any mistakes. The enemy had only sent out the strength of one ship, and did not launch a full-scale attack. This gave Daniel a choice. Should he take them all, or lure the enemy to send more troops? If he took them all, the enemy might retreat or even escape with two warships. In that case, Salin would suffer a great loss.
Those two battleships from Serrig Island were definitely worth more than a million gold coins, and it would take at least a few years to rebuild them. This was because Salin did not have skilled workers, nor did he have a shipyard, nor did he have enough Magicians. Building a large warship was not something a twenty-meter-long boat could compare to. If any part of the process went wrong, the warship could directly disintegrate in the water.
Although Salin had the Coiled Turtle Alchemy Ship, it was now being targeted by a High Mage, so he could no longer launch a surprise attack. In order to gain a foothold in the north, large warships were needed. Rex had taken a warship with him, and it had yet to return. The remaining two warships were the foundation of Salin's rise.
If the enemy managed to steal the two warships and escape, Daniel suspected that Salin would dismantle his own bones and use them to build warships. However, he only had so many people on hand, and he didn't have any ships to use. If he wanted to take back the two warships, he could only rely on schemes.
"Diabinus, disguise yourself as a level-6 undead and capture two of them alive. Be careful, don't kill all the enemies. " After saying this, Daniel sent a swordsman to the temple in the city center to report to Christian and write down his plan.
The swordsman went with the letter, and Daniel raised the alchemy telescope again to observe the situation on the sea.
The team of more than six hundred people was very close, and they didn't plan to hide. When they were about three miles away, Daniel finally saw the details of the team.
This was obviously a well-trained army. There were three Magicians in the six hundred people. According to Qin Yin's organization, there would be one Magician in each team. They were obviously not ordinary mercenaries, nor were they bandits. The three Magicians were all wearing gray magic robes, and they were at least level-4.
Daniel was depressed. Level-4 Magicians would be very useful in a battle. The enemy only had six hundred people, did they really have to send three Great Magicians?
He didn't know much about military battles, but in a large-scale mercenary battle, Magicians could also affect the situation. If the three Great Magicians buffed the swordsman, the team of six hundred would become a difficult rock to bite.
On the crescent-shaped peninsula, Daniel had more than three thousand skeleton soldiers lying in ambush. There were less than two thousand skeleton soldiers left, but with these three Great Magicians, the role of these skeleton soldiers couldn't be any smaller.
The five thousand skeleton soldiers were summoned by the three Lords, and if there were losses, they wouldn't be replenished. Because Banchagana was taken away by Salin, it was impossible to summon so many skeleton soldiers at once. If each Lord summoned alone, they could at most summon more than six hundred skeletons. Only when the three Lords worked together could they have that much power.
If they sent the skeletons into the battle, even if they defeated the enemy and won, the construction of the city would be delayed. That was why Daniel was depressed. He looked at the three Great Magicians with hatred, and thought to himself, Where did these people come from?
Obviously, these Great Magicians weren't from Alchemy City, because the magic robes they wore looked shabby to Daniel. These Magicians were followed closely by more than ten Swordsmen, and they looked very arrogant. If they were swordsmen from Alchemy City, they would definitely be very low-key around Magicians and wouldn't have such an expression.
The team of six hundred stopped at a distance of one thousand two hundred meters. Instead, they got into formation. The three Great Magicians started to cast Great Strength and Level Two Wind Speed on the warriors in front. These two spells didn't cost much to Great Magicians. After the three of them cast spells on the forty warriors, they retreated, still under the protection of those arrogant swordsmen.
At a distance of one thousand two hundred meters, it would be difficult to hit a target that far without a large alchemy crossbow. The enemy was clearly very proficient in military equipment. The Magicians didn't advance rashly, in case they were ambushed and wasted their magic strings.
On the surface of the sea two hundred miles away, 12 warships dragged two captured trophies and anchored outside the ice layer. The huge flagship had four floors. At the top floor, there was an alchemy telescope over three meters wide. This kind of large alchemy telescope could see a target 30 miles away. Any further and the target would disappear into the horizon, and that wasn't something the telescope could see.
In the captain's room, a man in huge armor sat in the middle, surrounded by more than forty people. These people were wearing colorful armors, and the shape of the armors were extremely exaggerated. But according to Qin Yin's armor-making standards, these majestic looking armors were too flashy and impractical. Many of the parts even affected the defense of the armor itself.
A person dressed like a Magician couldn't stand the loneliness and asked the leader sitting in the middle, "General, why don't you send the army to attack the shore directly?"
"Magician Youxi Marceau, our fleet encountered a storm and has lost four ships. The remaining ships also need to be repaired in order to recover their speed. If the enemy still has warships hidden and we attack the land with all our strength, the fleet will be in danger."
The person called the General expressed a certain amount of respect to the Magician in a black magic robe. A black-robed Magician was treated as a guest of honor in any country. However, although this General also had a respectful attitude, it was different from the nobles on the continent, and he still had a condescending aura.
"We have more than 20,000 soldiers, enough to take down a fortress like Continuous Cloud City. General, it is better to let my magic chariot go. We can take down this place in three days at most."
"Caution is the best. This time, our 18 countries jointly marched into the Myers Continent and encountered a storm, which is a bad omen. Obviously, this is a warning given to us by the Wind God. "The General in colorful armor had a dignified expression, but his words were very crazy. If the people of the Holy See were here, they would definitely list him as a heretic. What Wind God? In the plane of the Myers Continent, there were no other gods other than the God of Light.
"General, the spy said that the Phoenix Duchy is a mess because of the civil strife in the Qin Empire. Since we were blown to the north by the storm, we can consider taking down Phoenix from the north first."
"Of course, we have more than 20,000 elite soldiers, and a large number of magic chariots and magic stone cannons. It is not a problem to take down such a small town. I am worried that there are still forces from the Alchemy City here. Look at those two warships, they are obviously the style of the Alchemy City. If we really fight head-on, those two warships will also cause great damage to us. Don't be arrogant, everyone. The 18 countries have now dispersed, we must not arouse the vigilance of the Qinyin Empire. This time, we cannot let a single enemy escape. "
"Yes, General!" All the generals bowed and answered loudly. In their opinion, the power of the fleet was enough to destroy the small town near the coast. Of course, none of the enemy could escape. The attack of 600 people would first make the enemy panic, and then the puppets flying in the sky would quickly find the hiding place of the enemy. If the enemy had no other fleets, then they could attack fiercely.
Large alchemy binoculars, flying puppets in the sky, and magic compasses in the flagship were all searching the nearby sea area, strictly preventing any warships from approaching. The armed merchant ships had already thrown down dozens of metal pontoons, and started to build temporary docks on the ice layer.
The edge of the ice layer was not stable, and if they wanted to transport the siege weapons, they had to strengthen it. The eight armed merchant ships did not carry any goods at all. On each ship, there were 2,000 fully armed soldiers, and all kinds of military equipment, such as field catapults, siege hammers, flying puppets, magic cannons, and battle puppets.
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